Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] for the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We swopped experiences for the last time . |
| 2 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 3 | They returned in April , and in June visited Leeds for the last time . |
| 4 | Three weeks hence , The Canadian will head west for the last time . |
| 5 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 6 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 7 | IAN RUSH believes Kenny Dalglish made a terrible mistake when he walked tearfully out of the Liverpool dressing room for the last time . |
| 8 | The extra name was written by hand on the scorecard , which cost 10 centimes but did n't disclaim responsibility for the last wicket to fall ! |
| 9 | We have n't had overtime for the last couple of weeks . |
| 10 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |
| 11 | A few days later Keith Meerza sees Christopher for the last time . |
| 12 | The Waterloo Band will sound retreat for the last time tomorrow . |
| 13 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 14 | After a series of celebrations , it will leave Middlesbrough for the last time next Tuesday and head for Portsmouth to be de-commissioned . |
| 15 | Although widely described as boat people , a large number of the January arrivals had made most of the journey to Hong Kong aboard Chinese buses , only boarding boats for the last leg of their journey . |
| 16 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 17 | It took seconds for the last bit to drop . |
| 18 | Communication becomes difficult in a big team , and slack rope is more likely between the climbers , creating potential for the last member of a large team to fall and pull off those above . |
| 19 | If you wish to self-certify your earnings , you will have to supply accounts for the last year . |
| 20 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 21 | That 's what I got prison for the last time . |
| 22 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |